Dimitar Dimov

• Name — Dimitar Dimov • Birth Name — Димитър Тодоров Димов • Born — 25 June 1909 • Birthplace — Lovech, Bulgaria • Died — 1 April 1966 • Place of death — Bucharest, Romania • Occupation — Dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon

Born in Lovech, Dimov is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco (translit. Tyutyun, 1951) which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco directed by Nikola Korabov. Other novels authored by Dimov are Lieutenant Benz (1938), a story of fatal love between flawed characters during World War I; and Damned Souls (1945), a tragic tale of a dissolute young Englishwoman's passionate obsession with a fanatical and reactionary Jesuit set in Spain during the civil war. His plays included Holiday in Arko Iris and Women with a Past. Dimov died in Bucharest on 1 April 1966, at the age of 56. There is a bust of Dimov in the Borisova gradina park behind the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. His daughter Theodora Dimova is also a writer. In addition, a number of elementary schools across Bulgaria are named in his honor (particularly in his hometown of Lovech and in Plovdiv).

Dimitar Dimov was recorded at birth as Димитър Тодоров Димов. The authorities additionally record the heading Dimitar Todorov Dimov. His recorded language was Bulgarian. He married Neli Dospevska, Lena Levcheva and Lilyana Busheva.